LGBTQ/MILITARY/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Demonstrators flocked to a military recruiting station in New York City and gathered at a plaza named for a San Francisco gay-rights icon on Wednesday [7-26-17] to protest President Donald Trump’s abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military.
A crowd of at least a few hundred people gathered around the U.S. Armed Forces recruiting station in Times Square. They held signs saying ‘Resist!’ and listened to speakers who denounced the ban, which Trump announced on Twitter.
Demonstrator Yael Leberman says transgender people ‘are completely adequate to serve’ and combat is ‘not about physical, it’s about mental’ abilities. She says it’s unsurprising from the Republican president to say what he said or to see the pushback from a place as diverse as New York City.
It’s unclear what the ban will mean for currently serving transgender soldiers.
Several hundred demonstrators gathered later Wednesday in San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Plaza. They waved pink and blue flags, held signs reading ‘Trans lives are not a burden’ and chanted ‘Stand up! Fight back!’ “
-Olga R. Rodriguez, “Protesters gather against Trump ban on transgender troops,” ABC News, July 27, 2017 12:58am